• Reuters asks: “Did ABC News Create the Pink Slime Scandal?” and definitively answers its own question. No: pink slime created the pink slime scandal. The litigious Beef Products, Inc. just doesn’t like you using the word “slime” to describe its viscous protein product.

• Dirty trickster James O’Keefe agreed to pay $100,000 to compensate a former ACORN employee who lost his job because of O’Keefe’s misleading video sting of ACORN.

• A veteran of America’s dirty wars, who reported directly to Gen. David Petraeus, ran a network of torture centers in Iraq, according to a 15-month investigation by The Guardian and BBC Arabic.

• Rolling Stone takes us inside the military’s culture of rape denial and victim-blaming with this harrowing account of one officer’s desperate bid to clear her own name and save her career after a brutal attack: “The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer.”

• Maybe robot surgery isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]